Excitement is building!
Announcing an exhibition at the Temiskaming Art Gallery “Muriel E. Newton White – Quiet Living, Close Looking: the life and work of an unsung artist of the North.”
The show’s curator, Felicity Buckell writes:
Did you know that Muriel was trained at the Ontario College of Art, now OCAD University, by members of the Group of Seven?
In 1949, at the age of 15 – and after having been home-schooled her entire life – Muriel E. Newton-White earned a scholarship to the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Here she earned her Bachelor of Fine Art, instructed by Franklin Carmichael, Yulia Biriukova, a Russian-born Canadian painter known for her portraits of friends A.Y. Jackson and J.E.H. Macdonald, and Yvonne McKague Housser – founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933.
Over the coming weeks on social media, you can see previews of some of the works that will be on display. Make sure to follow TAG on their Facebook page.
In the meantime, check out these sweet drawings that illustrated a tourist brochure designed by the artist sometime in the early 1970s.
